title: Schiff bases: a short survey on an evergreen chemistry tool.
abstract: The review reports a short biography of the Italian naturalized chemist Hugo Schiff and an outline on the synthesis and use of his most popular discovery: the imines, very well known and popular as Schiff Bases. Recent developments on their "metallo-imines" variants have been described. The applications of Schiff bases in organic synthesis as partner in Staudinger and hetero Diels-Alder reactions, as "privileged" ligands in the organometallic complexes and as biological active Schiff intermediates/targets have been reported as well.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician" Via Selmi 2, Bologna 40126, Italy. mauro.panunzio@unibo.it.
authors.forename: Wenling
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Sha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Panunzio
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Biondi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000962:Antimalarials / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D060326:Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic / Q000266:history; D002625:Chemistry, Organic / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007659:Ketones / Q000737:chemistry; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D012545:Schiff Bases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D000962:Antimalarials; D000998:Antiviral Agents; D007659:Ketones; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D012545:Schiff Bases